Private eye have a collumn called ad nausium in which people send examples of lazy bastard ad execs, ripping off ideas from films, TV or other ads. The days when original thought flourished in advertising seems to be over for the most part and it's a real pleasure when you come across one that is funny and new.
The ads I hate at the moment are those small vingettes that BT put out with the young dope and his older humourless shoot of a partner who takes every oppertunity she can to put him down and roles her dead fish eyes and shakes her head everytime he does something wrong. Did I mention that I don't like it?
The worst part of the industry though is the way they get inside your head without you knowing it. My two girls were in the garden the other day singing " we buy any car.... any any any any"
I can tell you the phone number off by heart of Maincrest car and van hire. It's ingrained into my head from a radio jingle I haven't heard for thirty years, yet I can't remember my own mobile no.